A “user-centered” approach to design has been replaced by what [Jarrett Fuller] has taken to calling a “corporation-centered” approach. Rather than optimizing for the user’s experience, it optimizes for the extraction of profit. If Spotify succeeds at turning us all into passive listeners, then it doesn’t really matter which content the platform licenses. As Fuller put it, “It’s about ‘How do you get through as much music as you can so you keep paying for it?’" -Why I Finally Quit Spotify

Quitting Spotify has been a huge improvement to my music listening.

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The lead in a flotilla of clouds caught the evening colors just right as they passed.

One of the coolest parts of the 2024 iPhone Photography Awards is how well represented older phones are.

I managed to capture the evening colors before they left. They lasted less than a minute.